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XLIX 你兒兒 請 肉 豆 篩篩 了吃吃 兒兒 熟愛愛 羅羅 子伯叔 打曳 麥你你 伯 NOTES These words are not heard within the walls of Peking, but in the country. 羅 兒 luo^ ，r a silt to bolt flour. 曳 ye, to drag, to pull, to shake. 伯 read by the peasants not puo? but pai', one's father's elder brother. This character is read also paP, in the word 大伯子 ta pai^ tzu, title given to a man by his younger brother's wife. 叔 shu- read here shou-, as the peasants do. One's father's younger brother. TRANSLATION Beating the sieve sift ！ ― shaking the sieve sift ！ ― when the wheat is ripe, we will invite your uncle ― your elder uncle likes to eat meat ― your younger uncle likes to eat beans.
